State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2018
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hunt v. . Hunt · O'Brien v. People ex rel. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. · Jackson v. Smith · State ex rel. Egan v. Wolever · Dowdy v. Wamble
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every driver of a motor vehicle, after knowingly causing an accident by collision or otherwise, or knowingly injuring any person, horse, or vehicle, shall forthwith bring his motor vehicle to a full stop, return to the scene of the accident, and give to any proper person, demanding the same, the number of his driver’s license, the registration number of the motor vehicle, and the names and residences of each and every male occupant of said motor vehicle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lemme
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.